The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, a group of institutes, centers, and offices that have provided financial support to the NIH BRAIN Initiative, is advertising a Request for Applications (RFA) for training programs in computational neuroscience.
The 10 institutes and centers that participate in the NIH BRAIN Initiative are also part of a larger cooperative effort at NIH to broadly support research on the nervous system called the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research. The NIH Blueprint, first established in 2004, has provided financial support to the BRAIN Initiative, as well as orchestrating Grand Challenges like the Human Connectome Project and providing Resources & Tools for neuroscientists.
Additionally, the NIH Blueprint supports several training programs to help students pursue interdisciplinary areas of neuroscience, and to bring students from underrepresented groups into the neurosciences. Currently, 13 institutes, centers, and offices of Blueprint are sponsoring an RFA for NIH Blueprint Training in Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Model and Back Again (T90/R90). This opportunity will support integrated research education and research training programs that provide interdisciplinary training in experimental neuroscience and the theoretical and technological approaches of computational neuroscience at the undergraduate and pre-doctoral levels. Interested applicants are encouraged to read the RFA carefully and may also utilize these guidelines (129 KB) to complete a successful application. Applications must be received by March 18, 2016.
To learn more about this RFA and others sponsored by the NIH Blueprint, please visit the Blueprint Funding Opportunities page.